Newly discovered insect RNA viruses in China  

作　　者：QIU Yang WANG ZhaoWei LIU YongXiang QI Nan SI Jie XIANG Xue XIA XiaoLing HU YuanYang ZHOU Xi 

机构地区：[1]State Key Laboratory of Virology,College of Life Sciences,Wuhan University

出　　处：《Science China(Life Sciences)》2013年第8期711-714,共4页中国科学（生命科学英文版）

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31270190 and 81201292 to Zhou Xi,31270189 to Hu YuanYang);the Chinese 111 Project (B06018)

摘　　要：Insects are a group of arthropods and the largest group of animals on Earth,with over one million species described to date.Like other life forms,insects suffer from viruses that cause disease and death.Viruses that are pathogenic to beneficial insects cause dramatic economic losses on agriculture.In contrast,viruses that are pathogenic to insect pests can be exploited as attractive biological control agents.All of these factors have led to an explosion in the amount of research into insect viruses in recent years,generating impressive quantities of information on the molecular and cellular biology of these viruses.Due to the wide variety of insect viruses,a better understanding of these viruses will expand our overall knowledge of their virology.Here,we review studies of several newly discovered RNA insect viruses in China.Insects are a group of arthropods and the largest group of animals on Earth, with over one million species described to date. Like other life forms, insects suffer from viruses that cause disease and death. Viruses that are pathogenic to beneficial insects cause dramatic economic losses on agriculture. In contrast, viruses that are pathogenic to insect pests can be exploited as attractive biological control agents. All of these factors have led to an explosion in the amount of research into insect viruses in recent years, generating impressive quantities of information on the molecular and cellular biology of these viruses. Due to the wide variety of insect viruses, a better understanding of these viruses will expand our overall knowledge of their virology. Here, we review studies of several newly discovered RNA insect viruses in China.

关 键 词：insect virus Wuhan Nodavirus Dendrolimus punctatus tetravirus Ectropis obliqua picorna-like virus 

分 类 号：S476.13[农业科学—农业昆虫与害虫防治]